My fascination with the sea...
I believe my passion for the ocean and coastal environmets comes from having grown up in a landlocked country. I did not see the sea-side until I was 15 years old. We never took holidays abroad, so it was like a miracle - especially since I was an avid swimmer and diver - to set foot into an ocean and explore coastal environments and the sea, above and under water. The love for salt-water is also a healing one for me and just walking along the beaches is therapy for me and ... endless inspiration.

The sea is poetry to me ...

Recently, having relocated to North Wales, an as an avid fan of poetry, I came across an old sonnet that was forged very close to where I live (In Rhyl) by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
 

The Sea and the Skylark

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On ear and ear two noises too old to end
Trench—right, the tide that ramps against the shore;
With a flood or a fall, low lull-off or all roar,
Frequenting there while moon shall wear and wend.

Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend,
His rash-fresh re-winded new-skeinèd score
In crisps of curl off wild winch whirl, and pour
And pelt music, till none ’s to spill nor spend.

How these two shame this shallow and frail town!
How ring right out our sordid turbid time,
Being pure! We, life’s pride and cared-for crown,

Have lost that cheer and charm of earth’s past prime:
Our make and making break, are breaking, down
To man’s last dust, drain fast towards man’s first slime.

(source: https://hopkinspoetry.com/